Maybe I'm just suffering from politofatigue, but when I saw TWILIGHT last night, I thought it might be the first Obama-era movie. Edward, with his super-human self-control seemed like an Obama figure, seducing young Bella, America, with his infinite coolness, keen intelligence, and ability to be in many places at the same time.

Edward has his own 'team of rivals' in his 'family,' headed by the eminent and equally dramaphobic Emmet.Edward is white-white, a polarized image of the President-Elect. He is aloof, aristocratic, icily chaste, and when he bares his chest he sparkles.

He is also eternally young. We may have rediscovered the mists of Camelot in the fog of Forks, Washington.

I suppose there are other connections between the movie and what is unfolding on the national and international stage, but it seemed clear to me that we may have at the dawn of a new presidency a film that sums up some of the feelings we are, like Bella, feeling now: a little apprehension, a little amazement...and an irresistible attraction for the possibilities.